† contrited, ppl. a. Obs.
(kənˈtraɪtɪd)
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Crushed, ground to pieces; worn by rubbing.
| 1640 Fuller Joseph's Coat, Comm. 1 Cor. xi. 24 (1867) 58 All His bones were broken, that is, contrited and grinded with grief and sorrow. 1761 Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xlii, So contrited and attrited was it with fingers and with thumbs. |
2. = contrite 2; reduced to contrition.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 424/3 With good & contryted herte. 1556 Abp. Parker Psalter H iij, A sorrowfull hart and contrited spirite. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. State (1841) 444 Inwardly contrited in heart for the sins he had committed. 1816 W. Allen Life & Corr. I. 291 At meeting on first-day morning I was very low and contrited. 1821 Mrs. Opie in Miss Brightwell Mem. (1854) 185 The breathings of a supplicating and contrited heart. |